If there are two things I love, it’s good costumes and the British royal family. So, of course, The Crown is a real sweet spot for me. I love the show, and when I heard that an exhibit of costumes from it was going to be at the Winterthur Museum in glamorous Delaware, I knew I … More Delaware: Costumes of the Crown at the Winterthur Museum
San Francisco is one of those places that I’d file away under, “wow, have I really never been here yet?!?” It’s always been on my travel list, but for some reason or another, I never quite seemed to make it there. Over Memorial Day weekend this year, I finally rectified that. I began where all … More San Francisco: Burritos, Bridges, and Beyond
Somehow in my 33 years of living, I had never made it to Las Vegas. But if there’s one person whose power cannot be denied, it’s Celine Dion, and when my friends and I heard her Vegas residency was ending, we knew we had to go see her before she left. And since Vegas’s motto … More Las Vegas: Celine, Cher, and the Cosmo
Way back when I lived in Madison, going to Chicago for the big Christmas market was an annual thing. I always loved it – I am, of course, a sucker for a good Christmas market – but it occurred to me last year that it had been something like eight years since I last visited. … More Chicago: A Christmas Weekend in the Windy City
I always proclaim that I could never live someplace like California; that is, a place where there aren’t four seasons. Yet each time I visit, I wonder if maybe I’m just a little bit wrong – all that year-round sunshine can be pretty tempting when you think about it. And so it was when I … More Los Angeles: Hazy West Coast Days
I always feel a bit remiss about the fact that I have lived just a few hours away by train from Boston for several years now, and yet … I never really go there. Last summer, I rectified that, popping up to the city for a quick weekend getaway. The weekend began, fittingly, with breakfast. … More Boston: A Weekend Getaway to Beantown
Philadelphia is one of the easiest trips you can make from New York – Amtrak whisks you there in under two hours – yet, for whatever reason, I rarely find myself traveling there. In fact, until recently, I had only been once, during my first year in New York. For reasons I can no longer … More Philadelphia: A Lovely Spring Getaway
